externus
Latin
Etymology
From exter (“outward, on the outside”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈster.nus/, [ɛkˈs̠t̪ɛrnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈster.nus/, [ekˈst̪ɛrnus]
Adjective
externus (feminine externa, neuter externum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Classical Latin) outward, external
- foreign, alien, exotic, strange
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | externus | externa | externum | externī | externae | externa | |
| Genitive | externī | externae | externī | externōrum | externārum | externōrum | |
| Dative | externō | externō | externīs | ||||
| Accusative | externum | externam | externum | externōs | externās | externa | |
| Ablative | externō | externā | externō | externīs | |||
| Vocative | externe | externa | externum | externī | externae | externa | |
Derived terms
- externālis (adjective)
- externātus (adjective)
Related terms
- exterior
- exterius
- exterus
- extimus
- extrēmum
- extrēmus
Descendants
Descendants of externus in other languages
- → Catalan: extern
- ⇒ English: external
- → French: externe
- → Galician: externo
- → Italian: esterno
- → Norwegian Bokmål: ekstern
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: ekstern
- Piedmontese: estern
- → Portuguese: externo
- → Romanian: extern
- → Spanish: externo
References
- “externus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “externus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- externus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- externus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the world of sense, the visible world: res externae
- to be affected by some external impulse, by external impressions: pulsu externo, adventicio agitari
- to despise earthly things: res externas or humanas despicere
- to be acquainted with the history of one's own land: domestica (externa) nosse
- to embrace a strange religion: religionem externam suscipere
- a civil war: bellum intestinum, domesticum (opp. bellum externum)
- the world of sense, the visible world: res externae